CVE-2021-37938

MEDIUM

Kibana 7.9.0-7.15.1 - Path Traversal via .pbf File Loading

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf files. Because of this, a malicious user could arbitrarily traverse the Kibana host to load internal files ending in the .pbf extension. Thanks to Dominic Couture for finding this vulnerability.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 37.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22 CWE-269
Status published
Products (1)
elastic/kibana 7.9.0 - 7.15.2
Published Nov 18, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026